Combined rehabilitation and palliative care interventions for patients with life-threatening diseases - PREGOAL. A scoping review of intervention programme goals.

There is an increasing interest in combining palliative care and rehabilitation approaches in clinical work.When rehabilitation and palliative care are combined, goals may be overlooked, and the patient's own goals can be used as a point of orientation for interventions.Future practice should pay special attention to subjective goals, social participation, and the social and spiritual dimensions when combining rehabilitation and palliative care.